Our team of expert Technical Consultants worked very closely with the client’s compliance and safety teams to review and update their corporate asbestos management plan. We essentially became part of their compliance team temporarily to understand how asbestos is currently managed on procedure level and to identify areas for improvement based on regulations and best practice. The first stage of updating was to carry out a full gap analysis of their existing asbestos information to identify any areas for actioning additional investigation.

A training needs analysis for persons responsible for asbestos management was also carried out to highlight any additional training required by their management and supervisory staff to demonstrate competence for duty holders. Management procedures of the asbestos register were also reviewed to highlight improvement actions on how to better manage the register and ensure it is kept up to date by multiple stakeholders. One of the key outcomes of the management plan update was the recommendation for an asbestos coordinator role within the business to ensure that asbestos issues were addressed at both compliance and project levels across their property portfolio.

To carry on with our approach and to use our expertise of the clients asbestos risk profile and their operations we suggested that one of our junior consultants should be seconded into their compliance to support the embedding of new procedures, the delivery of the improvement actions and maintenance of the new asbestos management plan. The secondment role has been a success and means that we are continuing to support the client in managing compliance with the control of asbestos regulations 2012 more effectively and with better outcomes.